We don’t often associate sports and athletics with
smoking. The image we have of smokers and sports is, at most, a star athlete
having a celebratory cigar. Michael Jordan is a great example, as he was often
photographed with a cigar in his mouth after winning one of his numerous NBA
championships.

Other than that, sports and smoking don’t seem to mix
in our minds. Imagine taking a drag off a tobacco cigarette and then running
around. Doesn’t sound very enticing does it? It probably conjures up images of
coughing heavily and trying to catch your breath. But why is smoking so bad for
athletes anyway? Let’s take a look at why it’s so bad for athletes, and then
what vaping does to athletes.

Why Smoking is Bad for Athletes

We can break down why smoking is bad for athletes into
three basic areas of concern. The first one is heart rate. Smoking is known to
increase your heart rate and that’s mostly due to nicotine. An increased
baseline heart rate usually means a decrease in maximum heart rate. Athletes
excel by raising their baseline heart rate to one way above normal to get that
blood racing and fueling their movements.

The second area of concern is blood pressure. Nitric
oxide is the chemical compound in your body that dilates and relaxes your blood
vessels. This allows more blood to flow and deliver more oxygen to an athlete’s
muscles. Smoking decreases the formation of nitric oxide in your body, which
means constriction in your blood vessels. That means less blood flow, less
oxygen, and worse performance for an athlete.

The third area is the one you probably thought of
first. That would be lung capacity, which is greatly affected by smoking.
Essentially what happens to smokers it that they will develop a loss of lung
elasticity. In laymen’s terms, this means your lung will not expand as well,
which means you will have a lessened capacity for oxygen. This is caused by the
inflammation and degradation of your lung tissue due to smoke. Less room for
oxygen means you’re quicker to get winded and won’t be able to perform
athletics as long, or push yourself as hard, as non-smokers.

How About Vaping?

We know how bad smoking can be, and now we know what it
does to athletes too. It’s not at all surprising, since most people associate
smoking with poor health. That’s far from the top physical condition that
athletes need to stay in. Yet, the question of what vaping does to athletes
isn’t addressed. The answer may be a bit elusive, especially in comparison to
smoking. Let’s give it a shot anyway.

While there aren’t any long term studies on this topic
as of yet, there are a few things we can point to from the outset. The first
would be lung capacity, because vaping doesn’t do to your lungs what smoking
does. There isn’t any tar to coat them, and anecdotal evidence has told us that
people simply breathe better after making the switch to vapour. Vaping also
doesn’t contain carbon monoxide like smoking does. Carbon monoxide displaces
oxygen in your blood and slows down its delivery to other parts of your body.
Thus, we can conclude that you’re getting more oxygen by vaping than by
smoking.

This doesn’t mean vaping is in the clear. We know that
nicotine raises your heart rate and most people do vape with nicotine. We also
don’t know enough about nitric oxide and vaping. What we do know is that vaping
has helped millions of people stop smoking, and it’s even featured
in the Tobacco Control Plan. We would assume that there are some athletes
within those millions who have made the switch to vaping, and they’re surely
feeling those effects. People report that they breathe better and generally
feel better. It’s too early to know for sure what vaping does to athletes, but
we can safely say it’s far better for them than smoking.

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